Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 3, 2010

Too often we grab the latest product brochure, sales presentation or case study and post it online. But customers are looking for you to demonstrate an understanding of their needs before they are ready to engage in the sales process. Use the key insights from your surveys to create whitepapers on the top pain points.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Related Posts: How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Related Posts: How To Focus On Your Marketing Plan Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 I have used this Perfect Turkey Recipe in case you are interested. Simple and traditional recipe for a nice and juicy bird.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 29, 2010

Rob and I support and have adopted what we call the “Tele-Web” concept of driving the most efficient leads for sales through pull-based inbound programs. Sometimes, inbound demand generation isn’t enough to fill our funnels. Poor data quality: capture the “lead intelligence” from each call in a database.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 22, 2010 1 Subscribe 10 Reasons Why Mobile is Hot! Need to Drive Leads? Summit Holy Cow!

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3). Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

In order to meet new revenue and ROI goals, marketers need to improve their strategic skills (50%) and sales skills (40%). 58% of respondents said their role, as marketers did not end even after they handed off qualified leads to sales. This one has a puzzling contradiction (see #3). Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy August 5, 2010 Subscribe Holy Cow! Internet Trends From The Web 2.0

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 11, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Share: Read more from Social Media B2B Marketing , Social Media Click here to cancel reply. Share your thoughts, post a comment.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 5, 2010

You can review both How To Align Marketing With Sales and Marketing Leads: Quality Vs. Quantity for more detail on the emerging need for marketing to drive real sales and to quantify efforts. I agee that ALL marketing spend should be tied to quanitifiable results that the sales team and executives want to see.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 24, 2010

Re-purpose existing content for mobile downloads. That Is A Lot Of Time Spent Online Using Social Media Internet Trends From The Web 2.0 Need to Drive Leads? Build on traditional campaigns: Consider direct response extensions for mobile devices from traditional campaigns (such as text campaigns from a billboard).

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy December 21, 2010 4 Subscribe Augmented Reality For B2B Marketing in 2011?

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 9, 2010

Below are some of the metrics that you can use for measurement: Followers/Connections Impressions Clicks Sales/Registrations It is recommended to use these two free tools for tracking your campaigns: Google Analytics – use those on your landing pages to track site metrics such as traffic sources, time on site and sales funnel.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 2, 2010

The days of sending a list of contacts to sales is over. To sales, they are a waste of time. Second, you need to have compelling content that meets the prospects needs. Do these 2 things and you will find valuable leads. In the next post , I will list the actions you can take today to deliver targeted leads to sales.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. and then provide targeted content based on that information.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Because of these two things, in order to win a B2B sale you first have to build trust, demonstrate how reliable your product is, and show how it is suitable for the particular business you’re speaking with. This all means the B2B sales cycle is often very lengthy. and then provide targeted content based on that information.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2010

He goes on to explain how most marketers’ budgets are not aligned to what McKinsey calls the &# customer decision journey.&# He also implores us to block the traditional metaphor of the funnel which I also wrote about since it no longer aligns to the consumer buying process.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2010

But the same content will not always work in both mediums. Content strategy needs to be considered and offers may need to be adjusted. Registration-required content is not always viewed favorably by social respondents. Registration-required content is not always viewed favorably by social respondents.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I was truly impressed with the quality of the presenters and their content. A common theme: almost all the presentations highlighted the importance of identifying and working with the top influencers in your target market as a key starting point and component of success. Identify your influencers. Click here to cancel reply.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2010

How to Get Your Voice Heard Using Social Media Getting yourself noticed is not an easy task especially when you are looking to promote your brand and generate sales. Here are the few tips which can help you to get yourself heard and noticed amongst your target audience using social media.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 12, 2010

The debate often goes like this: Sales wants more leads. Sales complains that the quality stinks. Sales says they want better leads. So marketing tightens the quality standards and sends fewer but higher quality leads. Help sales fill their pipeline funnels. So marketing sends more.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 18, 2010

While great content is extremely important, it is essential to use your blog, Twitter/LinkedIn accounts, and other social media tools (RSS syndication) to build a group of influencers that will amplify your content. Not building networks or using syndication – This is not the “Field of Dreams” (if you build it, they will come).

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2010

How to Get Your Voice Heard Using Social Media Getting yourself noticed is not an easy task especially when you are looking to promote your brand and generate sales. Here are the few tips which can help you to get yourself heard and noticed amongst your target audience using social media.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Talk to sales to identify what kind of support they need from marketing in order to deliver their annual numbers. Well we need to focus on wringing out every lead and every deal from our funnels. We had become sales order-takers and now we were paying the price. So what happened in B2B Marketing? It used to be so easy.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 19, 2010

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2010

As well, we received a large amount of anecdotal feedback about how great the content was. Some of the top ones included: What is the best way to align your efforts with sales ? How do you balance the need for quantity of leads vs quantity? How do you balance the need for quantity of leads vs quantity?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 3, 2010

In the past I spoke about The 4 Most Common Mistakes in B2B Content Marketing and described the importance of understanding and analyzing keywords. These insights will guide the content you need to create for an effective campaign. As with organic search, social monitoring can assist with keywords, messaging and content direction.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

Marketing needs to be the engine to identify qualified leads for sales. ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study. The metrics you chose should be quantifiable and aligned to your sales goals. Think sales, leads, pipeline.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 21, 2010

CIOs and Directors were more willing to provide phone numbers and contact details than were lower-level buyers and CIOs were more likely to provide accurate contact details. Title and topic of content influenced searches more so than content types.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Sales projections? These had to be validated by the sales folks. Confessions Of A B2B Marketer 5 Sales Closing Techniques 7 Tips For Successful Lead Follow-up About Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Don't miss these great opportunities to build marketing content. Having the right content for automated lead nurturing programs can be the most difficult part of a lead nurturing campaign. You don't need to just focus on pushing out new content, you probably have some gold nuggets that may be hidden on your site.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Content: in building strong customer relationships, you have to provide valuable information that meets your customer needs. In social media content is not necessarily about creating white papers or videos. And something that is often overlooked: simply sharing the valuable content of others. The reason is context.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Michaels B2BMarketingInsider blog is dedicated to sharing the ideas, topics and marketing strategies that drive real results like sales, leads, and higher customer loyalty. Michael Brenner is the author of B2BMarketingInsider and serves as Director of Online and Social Media Marketing for SAP.

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JUNE 18, 2010

Skip to content Home About Michael Brenner Appearances B2B Marketing Insider Michael Brenner's Blog on B2B Marketing Content Marketing Demand Generation Mobile Sales Alignment Search Marketing Social Media Strategy June 18, 2010 3 Subscribe Need to Drive Leads? Follow these 6 Content Marketing Tips That Drive Leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I know how to do SEO and paid search and analyze top keywords. I know how to create content that people respond to. I know how to generate a lead. And so here I am hoping to take a journey to the place known as “I know how to build an online brand through blogging&#. I like to write, I like to share.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 5, 2010

I know how to do SEO and paid search and analyze top keywords. I know how to create content that people respond to. I know how to generate a lead. And so here I am hoping to take a journey to the place known as “I know how to build an online brand through blogging&#. I like to write, I like to share.

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